Fw: Namespaces does *not* formally introduce "global attributes"

[Tim Bray]

At 07:16 PM 2/4/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>Actually, so far, pretty much everyone seems to have implemented
>namespaces this way, and it's working like a charm: it's standard in
>the very popular Perl XML:Parser module (which uses Expat)

Seconded.  Here's the example I use to teach namespaces to perl programmers;
they get it instantly

  use XML::Parser;

  $xml = "<z xmlns='http://one.org'
             xmlns:two='http://two.org'><y1 /><two:y2 /></z>";
  $p = new XML::Parser(Namespaces => 1,
                       Handlers => { Start => \&STag });
  $p->parse($xml);

  sub STag {
    my ($expat, $type) = @_;
    my $ns = $expat->namespace($type);
    print "Element type $type is from namespace $ns\n";
  }
=========output==========================================
Element type z is from namespace http://one.org
Element type y1 is from namespace http://one.org
Element type y2 is from namespace http://two.org

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